Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-17
CLOTHES AND WOMEN,
A Scientific Consideration of tho Well
Worn Subject.
st. Louis Republican.

Worn Subject.
st. Louis Republican
After lovely woman has acquired her
rights, and has developed to full mas
culine standard the commissures and
the processes of her brain, some female
Virgil will doubtless begin her epic of
the emancipation with "clothes and the
woman l sing" Certainly with the
sweeter sex clothes are the weapons, the
| resources OF civiliz alton, with which
| femininlty marches 10 the conquest
OF the world. II Is all very well to
point to the Venuses ana the other ancient
ladies, who have come down TO Us in
marble, Just as the cigarette pictures of
our era will go down TO posterity images
and evidences of bad taste. The nude is
inherently vulgar ard immodest; and the
divinest flights Of ert cannot change the
deliberate verdict of the world against it,
But the woman clothed is C. creature
suited to our century, to our convictions
and to our climate, and it is to consider
Just why silks and VeIyets and cheese
cloths should SO accentaate and better
female, beauty lthat the inquiry has been
made.
Nobody can write scientifically OF wo-
mans apparel but woman. The man
who attempts it is lost. He is at once
bewildered by maze of technical terms,
bustles and paniers and corsages 8 al
refine, and all the other expressions which
go to describe just exactly what is meant.
But man may endeavor TO axe broad
mental grasp of the subject apart from
and above the petty illnesses with which
feminine sCTibblers would confuse coun-
sci. Thus the man accepts the woman
as g whole and considers her and what
she has on as one harmonious, homoge-
neOus, unsnalyzable completeness.
Hence we come TO the practical part of
our theme. II clothing is so necessary
to womRn-if we appraise temininlty, as
we do, by its coYer-should not philan-
tr0pists take up the matter and instead
of the wasted and misguided efforts TO
make girls ssvants in science make them
savants in loneliness? Should not our
theory of education be overhauled and
repaired? We teach boys st public eX-
pense how to make living, and certainly
if we propose TO be logical we should
teach the girls to fulfill their end in life.
There should be q grammar school of
calicos, reaching up to a high school
course of meTinos and nuns yelling and
cheese cloth, and topped of with a uni
versity training in silks and satins and
laces, with d postgraduate course on
81 aculative dressing, all of course out of
the public school fund aud 80 part Of g
school system.
Under such an ordering OF affairs each
girl would have q fair show in the
world, and the poor creature would
be too happy and contented to think of
with politics or the tobacco
habit. Unless something OF this
sort is done there Is 10 telling what
may happen.
II IS her dress rather than by a single |
hair that beGuty leads us, Sac enshrines
herself in walking rabernscle whereat
we 60 orr worshiping. Yet no one can
explain the glamour. 4 nicely dressed
girl who has been TO the high school and
perfected herself IN the calculus of proba-
5ilitie5 has figured cut for the Republican
that upon gala occasions q wCman's ex-
ternGl charms consists as follows: